Birth Plan Consultation
An effective birth plan allows your voice to be heard. Presented correctly, it can be a powerful tool for communicating with your care providers about what's important to you in your labor, birth, and immediate postpartum experience.
A consultation is for you if:
Your birth plan consultation includes: a 60-minute phone or video chat appointment, and a written birth plan exclusively for you, reflecting your wishes.
$75
A consultation is for you if:
- You want to communicate effectively with your care providers about your birth wishes.
- You want personalized guidance thinking through your priorities and options for birth.
- You want to know more about the benefits, risks, and alternatives to common birth procedures, and how they might apply to your particular situation.
- You have medical, spiritual, or mental health needs that aren't taken into consideration in the birth plan templates available online.
- You want tips for how to achieve the birth you desire from an experienced birthworker who has seen hundreds of births of all kinds.
- You want to feel educated and prepared for advocating for yourself/your partner.
Your birth plan consultation includes: a 60-minute phone or video chat appointment, and a written birth plan exclusively for you, reflecting your wishes.
$75
Birth Story Processing
The way in which we integrate the birth experience into the story of who we are is vitally important. Often, in our culture, the details of birth stories get boiled down to measurable details like: how long you were in labor, when you were how many centimeters dilated, and what time your baby was born. This linear approach to the birth story erases the more subtle details of the emotional landscape of birth. It's normal to have many kinds of feelings about your experience of birth; it's a huge transformation.
A birth story processing session is for you if:
Birth story processing is not therapy. It is a guided storytelling process, in which you can be deeply and non-judgmentally heard, and during which I can help you to extend greater compassion toward yourself, and help you understand your experience in a way that affirms your strength.
Birth story processing includes: a 90-minute phone or video chat appointment, and a personalized journal prompt or affirmation to assist you in integrating your birth experience.
$125
A birth story processing session is for you if:
- You had an easy birth or a challenging birth
- Things went the way you hoped, or differently from how you hoped
- You wonder if you "should" feel a certain way about your birth that you do not feel
- You don't understand some of the things that happened
Birth story processing is not therapy. It is a guided storytelling process, in which you can be deeply and non-judgmentally heard, and during which I can help you to extend greater compassion toward yourself, and help you understand your experience in a way that affirms your strength.
Birth story processing includes: a 90-minute phone or video chat appointment, and a personalized journal prompt or affirmation to assist you in integrating your birth experience.
$125
Vaginal Steam Consultation
Vaginal steaming has been practiced around the world throughout human history. It aids in healing after birth or miscarriage, and is reported by many to help relieve menstrual cramps, resolve heavy/brown flow, bring cycles into a more regular pattern, support fertility, relieve infections, and soothe dryness. Many people enjoy steaming as a relaxing element of their cyclical self-care.
As a certified vaginal steam facilitator, I can consult with you to determine a steaming protocol and select herbs tailored to your needs.
Your steam consultation includes: a 30-60 minute phone call, a personalized steaming care plan, and a package of steam herbs from my shop.
$75
As a certified vaginal steam facilitator, I can consult with you to determine a steaming protocol and select herbs tailored to your needs.
Your steam consultation includes: a 30-60 minute phone call, a personalized steaming care plan, and a package of steam herbs from my shop.
$75
"Working with Monica was easily one of the smartest decisions my spouse and I have ever made. Monica educated us, she was an advocate for us, and she helped and nurtured our relationship as we approached the birth of our child."
-Leah
-Leah
